Are we sure about this though? I'm seeing 5G being deployed in London now and I'm still [irrationally probably] anxious about it's potencial long-term health effects. :/
There are some potential side effects found in animal models, but they're either incredibly weak or only seen in conditions not really comparable to 5G. I looked at some of the studies in one of these 5G protest sites and a huge amount of data cited was about LF magnetic fields which really have nothing to do with 5G.
We're talking about daily 24/24 exposure for the rest of your life. I don't think we can put 3 mice in a cage, blast them for 3 hours and declare that it only had a weak effect = it's safe.
We added lead to car fuel to improve performances and told people it was safe for decades, we're still paying the price of that mistake today.
I'm in love with this project. It touches a bunch of things that I love in computer science: cryptography (quantum safe cryptography in particular), distributed systems (blockchain, PoS), [Pure] Functional Programming (Haskell, Rust to some extent), OSI and TCP/IP new-age alternative (RINA), a peer-reviewed research oriented development cycle etc etc.
It certainly has its flaws though. The roadmap moves really, really slowly (blame the peer-reviews I guess). I'm not saying it doesn't move at all, but we're 1 year into the project and it still didn't bootstrap out of the 3-party centralized consensus that it runs currently, i.e., we still haven't seen the Ouroboros consensus protocol in action at scale. Also, the most recent Cardano Foundation fiasco does not help, and it shows some mismanagement or miscalculation happened in the conception of the whole development/support ecosystem.
Nonetheless, it is a very exciting project and it is one of the few crypto-craze related projects that I think will prevail after all the dust settles.
Your passion shines through, appreciate your time reading the article.
I too agree that this technology will remain for the long term. As I talk about continually, this stage is about determining the best platforms and protocols to bring this technology to the masses.
I'm pretty certain they do. AMD's PSP and Intel's ME are really shady and are still enabled in every CPU sold today (and full of disclosed and undisclosed flaws for that matter).
Not to mention that these back doors can be easily disabled, e.g intels high assurance mode, but normal "owners" are specifically not allowed to disable them.
